MJF's Interview with
VINCE MENDOZA
Artists Who Influenced
Johannes Brahms
“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.” - Johannes Brahms
Igor Stravinsky
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.” - Igor Stravinsky
Joe Zawinul
“I am an improviser, I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.” - Joe Zawinul
Gil Evans
"All I ever did was try to do what Billy Strayhorn did." - Gil Evans
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